Right wing attacked in Camden

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But it is necessary to put the "left' Labourites on the spot in order to expose their role to those sections of workers who retain the illusion that they might turn and fight the right wing.

This is why the Workers Socialist League has changed its original plan to lobby the Labour Conference on Camden Labour Councillor Phil Turner has caused a stir in the local Labour Party by putting into print the words that many Labour activists have been thinking for some time.

In an article headed WantedA Socialist Council' published in the St. Pancras journal This Month, Turner attacks local right wingers:

"One hears more and more from the leadership of the Group about the 'plight of ratepayers' and less and less about the needs of the poor and disadvantaged."

And Turner goes on to draw a conclusion which applies with equal relevence to the Labour government when he points out that the Labour Group, and the leadership in particular:

... have become obsessed with 'cost effectiveness', 'manpower saving' and all the other jargon phrases of the economic crisis.

A fight to remove reactionary local Labour leaderships and right wing MPs is the only way to resolve this problem. Turner's articlethough insufficient in itself-shows that many sections of the Labour Party are beginning to think in